Example sentences of "up for [art] [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a television crew turns up for a tour of his house and DIY achievements , everything falls apart as he touches it . |
| 2 | From the ‘ savings , ’ as they are referred to , funds have been redeployed to make up for a decade in which growth of support for basic scientific research was , at best , sluggish . |
| 3 | Och , Ah 've been dyin' tae get up for a weekend amang yirsels . |
| 4 | On arrival , conference participants were invited to sign up for a workshop of their choice . |
| 5 | Lucien , however , liked the comparative privacy of the court and , once he 'd become familiar with the routines of the household and felt confident enough to venture around alone , went there often to limber up for an hour before his own breakfast . |
| 6 | Edberg stamped his world class authority on the match , dominating the 90 minute final and setting himself up for the defence of his Wimbledon title . |
| 7 | One grandmother , remembered as ‘ dressed all day in black silk ’ , had an annual income of £700 from the New River Company , which she ‘ spent in bringing us up ’ to make up for the incompetence of her solicitor son : she would sit all day ‘ upright in an armchair at the side of the fire ’ , opposite to her son 's . |
| 8 | The world No. 1 gave the tie her best , however , but even that was not enough to make up for the shortcomings of her second in command , Claudia Kohde- Kilsch . |
| 9 | He takes yachts from wherever they 've been laid up for the winter to their summer cruising grounds . ’ |
| 10 | The third night , above the rattling progress of a late train , he had pummelled Zoë with his fists , and not heard the frightened crying of his children , when she had said that no fucking way was she going to be holed up for the rest of her days in bloody , bloody Damascus . |
| 11 | let's face it , you know , deserve to be locked up for the rest of their natural lives . |
| 12 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 13 | But it started to make me feel scared that it was something I was going to have to bring up for the rest of my life . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're a bastard and thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life ’ |
| 15 | One outraged victim Gail York , 23 , yelled : ‘ You 're a bastard and a thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I prefer it if men find ways of dressing to enhance their personality rather than using clothes to make up for the lack of one . |
| 17 | This has become so serious a concern that early in 1991 , less than a year before their latest deadline for the launch of CD-I , Philips themselves established their own CD-I publishing operation , perhaps in an effort to energise CD-I disc investment or to make up for the lack of it . |
| 18 | He turned up for the audition with his art teacher , Rose , who he was dating at the time . |
| 19 | Their common lot was fierce parental discipline , even a man of a warm and kindly nature such as Samuel Pepys thought nothing of beating his 15-year-old maid with a broomstick , and locking her up for the night in his cellar , or whipping his boy-servant , or even boxing his clerk 's ears . |
| 20 | Guest of honour was Brigadier Garton who came up for the evening from his base at Catterick Garrison . |
| 21 | And that 'll be a t turn up for the books for him . |
| 22 | At the time and date arranged , he meets an old friend and decides not to turn up for the meal with his niece . |